Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as"art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presenceof the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the longhistory of the sacral image and its changing
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set ou
